Toptræf: Vi skal op på 15 millioner i 2015
A UN summit on AIDS has set a target of more than doubling the number of HIV-virus sufferers receiving life-saving treatment against AIDS to 15 million by 2015 (hiv kan føre til aids i udbrud, red.).
Health groups said the summit accord was a “critical’ step in achieving universal access to drugs, but that rich countries must now commit to paying the bill”. About 10 billion US dollar (50 milliarder DKR) a year is spent now, and the UN estimates that more than 6 billion dollar of additional annual funding is needed to get treatment to 15 million people.
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe urged donors, who have reduced funding for AIDS for the first time in 10 years, to increase their contributions to meet the new goal.
The UNAIDS chief said getting to zero (nå målet) will require new innovations to provide inexpensive diagnostic methods and medication available for everyone, everywhere in five years.
World leaders at the UN AIDS summit also launched a plan Thursday to try to eliminate by 2015 most new HIV infections among children, who inherit the condition from already infected mothers.
In 2009, some 370.000 children were born with HIV, or one nearly every minute – the vast majority of them in 22 countries, almost all in Africa.
But providing HIV-positive pregnant women with treatment can reduce the risk of a child being born with the virus to less than 5 percent.
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